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1800-01-10

Birot proposes evacuating Jacmel

Haitian

Famine was already making itself felt in the town. The garrison already suffered privations. Women and children no longer received the ration reserved for the soldiers. People began to eat horses, rats and cats. On 10 January Birot, recognizing the impossibility of holding out longer in Jacmel, proposed to the officers of the garrison to evacuate the place. They accepted, but the soldiers showed themselves indignant at it. Then Birot, commandant of the arrondissement, Fontaine, commandant of the place, Borno Déléart and Dupuche embarked furtively during the night of 19 January on a schooner commanded by Lartique, harbor master, and went to the Cayes. The soldiers shouted indiscriminately against all their chiefs. Their authority was disregarded. Two officers, Auger and Gauthier, calmed the ferment and regained their ascendancy over the troops. Gauthier was named commandant of the arrondissement and Auger second in command.

Rouzier tells this under the entry JACMEL.

Source  ·  p. t. III, p. 53 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. III) (1927), p. t. III, p. 53